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Last week an actor’sCasting Call resume attributed the nextHitmaniteration to Rocksteady Limited, the London-based developer responsible forBatman: Arkham Asylum. We didn’t like the link. Publisher Eidos has made it clear several times in recent memory that IO Interactive is developing the nextHitmangame. It appears we were right to be suspicious of the resume. indeed, IO Interactive is handling the next title. Speaking toPWGM, Eidos CEO Ian Livingstone confirmed that theBatmandeveloper isn’t behindHitman 5: “This is the first I’ve heard about it....

The latest Black Friday deal comes from Target and they’re offering a lot of gift cards with certain purchases. System wise, Target will be offering $50 gift cards with any purchase of a Xbox 360Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2bundle or a Xbox 360 120GB Elite system. DSi system purchases will get you a $20 gift card. Certain select videogame purchases will get you a $10 gift card, which includesCall of Duty: Modern Warfare 2andAssassins Creed II....

As if Blu-ray discs weren’t big enough, a new report has revealed that they’re about to get even bigger. Thanks to new production methods, the old per-layer storage capacity for BDs has been increased to 33.4 GB. “Read and write at 33.4 GB per layer would be implemented thanks to the use of partial response maximum likelihood (PRML) signal processing,” writes Nikkei, using words I don’t understand. “The new method can continue to use the existing Blu-ray optics: a blue-violet laser diode with a 405 nm wavelength, and an object lens with a numeric aperture (NA) of 0....

Last time we checked in,S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyatwas given a release month: February. Seeing as howthat announcementwas sent out, what, less than a week ago, today’s “news” that the exact North American launch date is February 2 is kind of funny. I guess the specifics were still being worked out, or maybe publisher Viva Media just wanted us to give this game exposure a second time for little to no reason....

In anticipation of a movie which isn’t coming out until August of next year, Capcom is about to unleash an iPhone game based onThe Smurfs, what the press release we received promises is the first in a series. Gargamel sympathizers may have a very, very long year to come. Smurfs’ Villagewill have players rebuilding the Smurfs’ village after it has been destroyed by Gargamel. Starting with a lone mushroom house, you’ll perform (likely repetitive) tasks to slowly return the village to its former glory....

Just thinking about violence in videogames and its social ramifications keeps us warm on those cold, wintry days whenGTA IVisn’t blamed for some some tragic circumstance. Thankfully, the pundits in the media, as well as politicians, always help to fan the fire whenever a controversial videogame comes out. It keeps us interested and it keeps you entertained. Yet, when it comes to games in politics in the upcoming election, where does the majority of the industry stand?...

Capybara is bringingMight and Magic: Clash of Heroesto Xbox Live Arcade and the PlayStation Network later this year. This isn’t just going to be a straightforward port of the DS game as Capy is givingClash of Heroesthe HD treatment! The game will receive all sorts of awesome updates to it, such as hand-drawn artwork replacing the 16-bit style sprites and scenes.Clash of Heroes HDwill also feature four-player versus or co-operative modes....

Nin2-Jumpcame a bit out of left field (just wait until you play it), but I don’t mean that as a negative. Interesting, different — these aren’t attributes I’d personally complain about. Cave has outed the game as hitting Xbox Live Arcade soon; as in, this week. Better than a day-of announcement, I suppose. On Wednesday, you’ll be able to pick it up for 400 Microsoft Points ($5), which was a wise move on Cave’s part....

Showing how big of a role name recognition plays in the videogame market,Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rockhas become the first game to earn $1 billion in sales. Activision Publishing CEO Mike Griffith spoke about the company’s latest accomplishment during his CES keynote, and how games are “poised to eclipse all other forms of entertainment in the decade ahead.” “Music has a history of evolving through technology and we are at the beginning of the latest chapter in that story,” says Griffith....

Champions Onlinenow has over one million characters fighting and bashing baddies across its digital world. Earlier this afternoon, Cryptic Studios and publisher Atari announced that the MMO now has more than one million created characters, making it the first game namedChampions Onlineto reach the one million created characters mark. While we have no way of confirming this, it appears that only one of those million characters are named Brad Nicholson, despite the writer’s best attemptat getting people to mold a character in his likenessin the game....

Developer Cryptic Studios is teasing a content update forChampions Online. Dubbed “Blood Moon,” the October-bound content adds the villain Takofanes, an ancient Egyptian-themed skeleton who controls an army of the undead. According to theteaser splash Web page, Takofanes will be accompanied by an undead horde, which includes zombies, undead heroes, and, uh, not-so-undead werewolves. The enemies come with a twist. If players fall to a Takofanes’ zombie or werewolve, they will become one....

Chaos Rings Omega, the prequel to Square Enix’s role-playing gameChaos Ringsset 10,000 years before the first game, is out today for iPhone ($11.99) and iPad ($14.99). Look for a review in the near future! If you think that’s a bit pricey to buy straight away and you’d rather buy 12 games instead, the originalChaos Ringsis on sale until May 27th for iPhone ($3.99) and iPad ($4.99). Jim thought the original was worth the $12....

Activision dumped a ton of screens on us for their game based on the upcoming Dreamworks film,Monsters vs. Aliens.There’s a few screens for the 360 version, a few for Wii and a whole mess of DS images. I’m interested in seeing the film because I typically enjoy Dreamworks’ animated features but the game sounds like a clone ofKameo, except based on a movie license and not developed by a company with Rare’s pedigree....